The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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So something to practice with this morning or to consider or to explore or to

explore or investigate play with this morning while you're practicing is to notice how so very often when we are present with our experience there's this subtle feeling like it's just not

quite right.

It should be better somehow.

Even if it's not clear to us how it should be better,

it's just like it's not quite good enough.

Whatever is happening.

Whether it's, even if it's outside with blue skies and puffy clouds and the weather is nice and we feel the sense of spaciousness.

There's often this quiet sense of, yeah, but, you know, what's going to happen next or, I don't know,

or it wasn't like this yesterday or I hope it stays like this, whatever it might be.

So, when you notice that there's this quiet sense, or maybe it's not quiet maybe it's really loud the

sense of yeah but I wish it were why can't it be dang it why is it like this these types of things which turn out to be

so prevalent once we start paying attention to them, it can be really helpful to drop in something

very simple that helps us kind of like just tune into what's happening and put the resistance and put the

aversion aside because that's what it is it is. So what can we do to help put this resistance that's getting

in the way between us and what we're experiencing? Just very simply drop in.

It's like this right now.

It's like this right now. It's like this right now.

It's like this right now. It doesn't mean we like it. It doesn't mean it's what we ordered up on the menu. It just means that's how it is and this practice is so much about

softening our resistance so that we can be completely present with what is.

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